Integer division and remainder

[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

14 Aug 2001 16:20:57 -0700, Paul Rubin <phr-n2001 at nightsong.com> pisze:

>    7 / 3 =  2
>   -7 / 3 = -3
> 
> This is kind of strange.  Normally you expect (-a)/b to be the same as -(a/b).
> That's what happens in most languages, where division rounds towards zero:

Donald Knuth says that Python is right and C is wrong, and I agree
with him here. I expect a%b for positive b to return a value in the
range [0, b).

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